Please avoid using photobucket as new posts will not have their images shown.

You may have seen that the site was offline for a long time on Sunday night and tonight (Monday).

The reason is that it was brought to my attention a method what would mean that images stored at photo bucket, which unviewable, could be made visible again.

Needless to say after a bit of tinkering under the hood, it look like they are now back.

There may be some that still appear as missing, but that is because the image actually no longer is on the PB site anymore, so please do not bring this to our attention if you come across a post with one still missing.

As part of doing this, anyone who had a PB link as an avatar, or in their signature, will have had it removed. Unless they are a paying member of photobucket, you'll need to store it elsewhere.

The other thread about the images becoming missing will now be locked out.

I cursed the past couple of nights when the site was down for maintenance, but that was worth it. Good result. I'm curious though; have PB relented, or if not, aren't they likely at some point to block the work-around?

The scripts that were run copied a copy of the image from photobuckets site over to this site.
When the posts are displayed, if there is a reference to a photobucket image, it will display the local copy.

If you upload to photobucket and try to get your image to display, it won't work.

Hmm - I posted a couple of Photobucket images in my thread at http://www.babybmw.net/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=105631 earlier today, which seemed to work fine this afternoon, but they are now showing up as the request to pay for a subscription to host third party images. Have I done something wrong, or has this got broken again?

Edit - ah, just read the note about new images not working. To Imgur I go...

Hmm - I posted a couple of Photobucket images in my thread at http://www.babybmw.net/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=105631 earlier today, which seemed to work fine this afternoon, but they are now showing up as the request to pay for a subscription to host third party images. Have I done something wrong, or has this got broken again?

Edit - ah, just read the note about new images not working. To Imgur I go...